A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. – George Herbert
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. – George Herbert

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. – George Herbert
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. – George Herbert
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early